5th grade art projects

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What’s YOUR Name?

Our first big art projects this year are all about NAMES!  Each grade level is learning a different way to write their names – 1st and 2nd grades are learning BUBBLE LETTERS, 3rd is learning BLOCK LETTERS, and grades 4 and 5 are learning how to write their name in CURSIVE.  Students then added the art elements of line, shape, and color to turn their names into a work of art.

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Grades 1 & 2 bubble letter designs

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Grade 3 block letter designs

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Grade 4 cursive writing designs

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Grade 5 cursive writing designs

We also spent some time looking at how other artists use words and letters in their art pieces.  We looked at the words that Faith Ringgold includes around her Story Quilts.

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Andy Warhol’s “100 Cans” and Juan Miro’s Hirondelle/Amour also brought some interesting discussions about words found in art.images-1 images

“I Can” Goals:

I can write my name in block, bubble, or cursive letters.

I can talk about different works of art.

I can use the art elements of line, shape, and color to create a work of art using my own name.

 

 

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Saving the best for last…Chihuly!

Georgetown’s 5th Grade artists recently learned about one final artist for the school year – and he turned out to be one of their favorites!  We discovered glass artist Dale Chihuly and created two works of art in his style – a beautiful chandelier made of recycled water bottles, and a macchia bowl installation that was created by draping colored coffee filters.

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Chihuly Macchia Bowls

Here are our masterpieces!

The Chihuly Chandelier

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The Macchia Bowls

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More Georgetown Masterpieces

Here are our most recent District Art Show selections.  The show is coming up soon; visit our HPS Art Program website for more information!

Congratulations, Artists!

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5th Grade Amate Bark Paintings

Georgetown 5th Graders began their study of Mexico and South America by learning about the Amate Bark paintings found throughout Mexico.  These colorful works of art often depict flowers and birds and are painted on bark that has been boiled and pounded into sheets of rough paper.

After viewing and discussing a sample amate bark painting, everyone had a fun time crumpling up their brown kraft paper so it resembled the rough, crinkly look of traditional amate paper.  Students first sketched their ideas in their sketchbooks, then drew and painted their Amate Bark masterpieces.

Amate Bark Painting

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Georgetown Amate Bark Paintings

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New Winter Art Projects from G-Town

The blustery cold weather has inspired our Georgetown artists to create some fun “wintery” projects.  We are also starting our study and review of color, and these projects are reinforcing our understanding of color families such as primary and secondary colors, and  warm/cool colors.

First grade artists are working on these nice warm/cool holiday trees.

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Second grade artists are finishing up some awesome grinches, focusing on shading and warm/cool color combinations.

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Third graders are enjoying exploring different color families as they create these colorful candy canes!

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Fourth and Fifth grade artists created visual interest with line, shape, and color as they created their Nutty Nutcrackers.

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Parents…these projects can be found on our on-line art gallery, ARTSONIA.

Kudos to these fellow art teachers for our project inspiration:

Candy Canes – The Clever Feather ; Geometric Trees – Liberty Christian Academy via Artsonia

 

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Georgia O’Keeffe Meets the Zentangle

Georgetown’s 5th grade artists are working on a stunning project that I just can’t wait to display in the hallways!  We’ve been learning about the art of Georgia O’Keeffe and examining her beautiful large flower paintings.  We learned that O’Keeffe wanted people to really, really stop and look at her flower paintings, so she made the paintings large to draw their eyes in to the piece.  The zentangle flower in our 5th grade project does the same – we can’t stop looking at these beautiful flowers!  A lesson in mixing tints and creating value completed these zentangle flower pieces.

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Big thanks to Arteoscuola for this FABULOUS project – we loved it!

 

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Super Spirals

Fifth graders have been learning about the work of Austrian artist Hundertwasser, who was obsessed with SPIRALS!  After painting a colorful striped background, they created these beautiful yarn spiral “lollipop flowers” in the style of Hundertwasser.

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 Painted backgrounds, ready for spirals.

 Glueing yarn spirals – such concentration for my chatty 5th graders!

  Love these beautiful spirals!

 Finished Spiral Landscape

Parents, these pieces can be found in our on-line art gallery at ARTSONIA!

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The Blob Project

Georgetown’s 5th grade artists are completing this beautiful project – and I’m liking it!  As the school year winds down, I look for ways to use up opened materials and odd-shaped leftover paper,  AND ways to keep my antsy summer-break-ready students engaged.  The Blob Project worked beautifully!

First we used up some old watercolors, creating paint blobs and spatters on some long 6″ x 36″ heavy drawing paper, also left from another project.  We reviewed warm and cool colors, put on some nice slow music, and the room was amazingly quiet as students dripped and spattered their paints.

During the next class, we used black tempera paint thinned with a little water to create flowers, butterflies, and swirls.  The watercolor blobs were our inspiration, and my 5th graders enjoyed just painting and letting the blobs guide their choices.  The results – beautiful!

 

This project is adapted from an old Arts And Activities Magazine article, shown here.

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Dragons, Dragons…and more Dragons!

My awesome 5th grade artists have really been enjoying creating these Chinese Dragons.  I gave them lots of resources and pictures to look at as they drew……and the results are amazing.  I love the way they interpreted their dragons – from realistic to cartoon ideas…and the fun backgrounds too!